BBC — Iran has called US air strikes on Iraq and Syria a "strategic mistake" after 85 targets were hit across the region on Friday. Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON — The United States has begun carrying out airstrikes in the Middle East in retaliation for Sunday's fatal drone attack on an American base in Jordan. Read more »

VOA — TEHRAN — Iran began construction on four more nuclear power plants in the country’s south, with expected total capacity of 5,000 megawatts, the official IRNA news agency reported Thursday. Iran... Read more »

VOA — As the United States prepares “multiple actions” in response to a drone attack by Iran-backed militants that killed American soldiers, Kataib Hezbollah, one of the more powerful of Iran’s Iraq-based... Read more »

VOA — The United States is considering options for how to make Iran and its proxy forces in Iraq and Syria pay for a deadly drone attack on a base in northeast... Read more »

Three US troops have been killed and dozens injured in a drone attack on a US base near Jordan’s border with Syria. US President Joe Biden said the attack was carried out... Read more »

DW — Opinion polls and political pundits agree that Donald Trump has a real chance of winning back the White House. For many in Europe, this is a troubling scenario. Read more »

VOA — A series of positive economic data releases this week combined to suggest that the U.S. economy is performing exceptionally well, with stronger than expected growth, low unemployment, rising wages and... Read more »

VOA — The U.S. government privately warned Iran that the Islamic State group’s affiliate in Afghanistan was preparing to carry out a terrorist attack before bombings in Kerman earlier this month that... Read more »